Palin trails Obama in red Tennessee

Politico ^ | 2/7/11 | Maggie Haberman

[pissant]

Sarah Palin's big problems among the GOP faithful are on clear display in a new poll that shows large numbers of Republicans aren’t sure about her and the tea party darling trails President Barack Obama in a head-to-head matchup in Tennessee — even with the president's job approval numbers running low in the state.

The poll in the solidly red state where she and McCain crushed Obama by 15 points two years ago is a warning bell that Palin, despite her following and appeal to conservatives, remains fairly radioactive to some Republican voters, who are far from convinced she can win in 2012.

[P-Marlowe]

I think there are better candidates out there than Palin. Try......the gov of Indiana (don’t remember his name)

LOL!!!! You think Governor Whatshisname would make a better candidate than Palin???

Obviously your Palin Derangement Syndrome is deteriorating your memory banks.

And you actually posted your ignorance? I bet you think you are smarter than Sarah Palin. LOL!!!!

[Psalm 144]

“I’ll let you in on a little secret...the establishment Republicans are not afraid Governor Palin would lose, they are afraid she would win and screw it up for Jeb in 2016.”

True. Which is why she will be in a crossfire from both political machines. Can she do it? Maybe. Hopefully.

But make no mistake the GOP nomenklatura want her zeroed out as much as the Democrat Fauxsheviks do.

[LegendHasIt]

They really ought to do their polling of people other than those standing in line at the welfare office and the free clinic.

[BigBobber]

Obama won’t be running against Palin, he’ll be running against a media-generated caricature of Palin, and the sheeple will buy it, just like they did LBJ’s line of BS in ‘64.

Because if the nominee is not Palin, Obama and the lefty press will play it straight with the Republican...

C'mon, we been through this before. The lefty press will trash whoever the nominee is. Palin is getting the heat right now because she's the front runner. Who is the magical candidate who won't get the Palin treatment?

[truthguy]

This is going to be one of the hottest topics on the stage for the next year and a half. Palin is hugely popular among many in the Republican Party. To many, she is their rock star candidate. However most of her supporters are political novices. They were the same types who believed Christie O'Donnell could win in Delaware if people just wished it. If people only believed it, it could happen. But of course she lost and if her opponent in the primary had won we would have another Republican in the Senate and be much closer to parity.

What I think is going on is why Republicans are often called "the stupid party". Democrats are "the evil party". Many here believe that conservatives are a majority in the United States. They hang with other conservatives both in personnal life and online. So they get a distorted picture of what's happening around them. I live in a sea of liberalism, so I have no delusional of the situation.

True Conservatives do not represent a majority of Americans. Most Americans are moderate more or less. They are a requirement for any Republican to win a national election. We should NEVER forget this simple fact. The country could be in a meltdown not seen since the end of the Civil War BUT Obama is going to win 95% of the Black Vote- Guaranteed. He's going to win 80% of the Hispanic Vote. He's going to win 65% or more of the Asian Vote. These numbers are carved into stone and cannot be changed. Add to these numbers the municipal labor unions, traditional labor unions and suicidal lunatic whites and you have enough votes to give Obama a second term. ANY Republican candidate will need to win both branches of the Republican Party and a substantial number of moderates to have a chance of beating Obama. We should never forget this. If we squabble and have types who call every Republican Candidate who doesn't agree with them on every issue a RINO, we might just have real problems. Think about it.

[colorado tanker]

I learned a long time ago not to dismiss the polls because we don't like the result.

I have spoken to a number of Republicans, mostly women, who question Palin's qualifications for the presidency. And they vote conservative.

[MEGoody]

I don’t care how one feels about Sarah Palin. To choose Obama over her clearly shows the state is not as red as they would like people to believe (unless by ‘red’, you mean Communist).

[chimera]

The '80 election parallel is also invalid unless Obama gets his own hostage crises. He might have weathered the economic downturn (stagflation) with the help of the media, but the hostage crises and the final debate performance by Reagan turned the late polls against Carter very strongly. There was the one overnight tracking poll done on election eve that showed Reagan's lead blowing open again. It was clearly related to the hostages.

Obama isn't very smart on his own, but I think he will likely avoid the mistakes Carter made. No doubt the media will savage any candidate put up in opposition to their Messiah, but the knives are out for Palin in double portion.

[Behemothpanzer]

-—Two years out President H.W. Bush had a 92% approval rating...yet he lost.-—

Two years out from what? Bush’s approval hit 92% in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 - Three years from the 2004 election. Two years prior to the ‘04 vote he was at 65% and two years prior to the ‘08 election he was hovering around 35%.

Link: http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Palin trails Obama in red Tennessee AMONG DEMOCRATS

Fixed it.

[TexasCajun]

Newt to the rescue!

/sarcasm

[Sallygal]

I live in Tennessee, West Tn. in fact where it is a little more democrat but trending republican. Obama didn’t even win the first time in this area. My county went with McCain. This was the first time it went republican in a presidential election since Reagan. I can assure you.........this poll is BS. There is no way in HELL that Obama would beat Palin. In fact, Palin would cream him. Trust me, I know of what I speak. Tennessee is SOLID RED.

[MortMan]

True Conservatives do not represent a majority of Americans. Most Americans are moderate more or less. They are a requirement for any Republican to win a national election. We should NEVER forget this simple fact. The country could be in a meltdown not seen since the end of the Civil War BUT Obama is going to win 95% of the Black Vote- Guaranteed. He's going to win 80% of the Hispanic Vote. He's going to win 65% or more of the Asian Vote. These numbers are carved into stone and cannot be changed. Add to these numbers the municipal labor unions, traditional labor unions and suicidal lunatic whites and you have enough votes to give Obama a second term. ANY Republican candidate will need to win both branches of the Republican Party and a substantial number of moderates to have a chance of beating Obama. We should never forget this. If we squabble and have types who call every Republican Candidate who doesn't agree with them on every issue a RINO, we might just have real problems. Think about it.

In other words - you expect conservatives to stay firmly on the GOP plantation, no matter how badly they are treated.

That approach already gave up Obama once. Now you want more.

[RoseofTexas]

I really believe the mediaWHORES onslaught against Palin 24/7 has finally taken root. I know a few folks who will not vote for her solely because they believed every lie the mediaPUKES spewed. They say Palin didn’t do herself any favors either by having reality show. These folks voted for her in the past now they won’t even consider her a presidential candidate. THE EVIL MEDIASATAN HORDES still yield a lot of power in their pens.... NOW the BASTARDS are going after Michelle B. with a vengeance. Believe me when I say the SHEEPLE virus is alive and well.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I don’t believe it for a second. Tennessee was solidly McCain in ‘08 and people here still cannot stand Obama.

I call this poll bullshit.

[dmz]

I’m guessing you’ve not a clue as to the programs the government put into place in response to the dust bowl. Think bailouts. And that is what you want now?

You’ve been selling yourself as a conservative, not a New Dealer. That charade is pretty much finished.

[truthguy]

In other words - you expect conservatives to stay firmly on the GOP plantation, no matter how badly they are treated.

That approach already gave up Obama once. Now you want more.

Go ahead and keep believing you can win elections with a minority of voters and you will get your second Obama term. We lost in 2008 because we had a weak candidate. Obama had the entire MSM behind him. He will have it again in 2012 and that's guaranteed. Politics is the art of the possible. Your attitude is the type that loses elections. Ronald Reagan always said we should nominate the most conservative people who can win, not the most conservative. Losing gets you nowhere and we cannot survive another Obama term. Attitudes like yours has earned the Republican Party the title of "the stupid party".

[mo]

“I’ll let you in on a little secret...the establishment Republicans are not afraid Governor Palin would lose, they are afraid she would win and screw it up for Jeb in 2016.”

The only way she makes it on the ticket...in 2012..is with Jeb Bush

[Article10]

Having lived in TN I would take this all with a grain of salt. If the calls where all in Shelby County, then of course Othugga would be ahead and Palin way behind. Call around Knoxville and see what the polls say.

Just another political trick on a slow news day by some leftist suffering from Palin Derangement Syndrome

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

The 2010 midterms say different.The tea party knows he’s a rabid marxist like we have never had and a bunch of his voters of 2008 realize how big a mistake it was to vote for him.She will wear his skinny ass out.